I tallied everything up from the weekend.

Covered 4 states in 3 days
Stopped at 8 breweries/brew pubs/bars/taprooms
Drank 63 different beers
Legitly got drunk once (Friday night I drank nearly a pint of Utopias)
Got pulled over once
lost Jonathan for approx 38 hours

$130 in valet parking
$150 in gas for the truck
$200 for hotel (thank you priceline for getting me a room for the entire weekend for the normal cost of 1 night)
~$150 in bottled beer to cellar and drink at a later date

free beer advocate bottle opener
free beer advocate staff shirt
free smuttynose brewery shirt
3x 750ml bottles of assorted barrel aged beer free
4x beer tasting/sampling glasses free
every meal for 3 days free

The chance to drink rare and vintage beer I'll never see again in my life and meet a ton of great people: priceless

beer advocate is a great site

what beer do you have now

Huh?

Btw, answer texts pliz.
I'm trying to hook a brother up. You being a fan of ipas I'm locating the best of the best in your area

i just got the text

and what new beers did you come away with?

Freebees:
Imperial Stout Trooper by New England Brewing (750ml)
Bourbon barrel stout by Odell (750ml)
Curve series 2 oak aged strong ale by southern tier (22oz bomber)
Sculpin IPA by Ballast point (750ml)
Scratch series 24 by Troegs

Bottles purchased:
2x Flying Mouflan barleywine vintage year unknown by Troegs (22oz bomber)
st Louis frambois (for the beast) 750ml
JW Lees Harvest Barleywine vintage 1998
Avery the beast grand cru vintage 06-07
great lakes brewing Edmund Fitzgerald porter
hair of the dog: Fred
weyerbacher 13 anniversary Belgian stout (22oz bomber)

n1

what happened when you got pulled over

it probably started with a backrub

adam go back to fishing

btw the reason i dodged is because im not 21 yet

thanks for the call

and nice usage of the made up word 'legitly'

there were others who were not 21 on the tour
if you would have said that while I was still in the state we could have done something else

Here is one for you



Made in San Diego, this is hands down the best IPA I ever had.

ilu. i'm so glad you're a m8.

Hennepin still sucks e're'day'ya'hurd

phone died yesterday adam, and only one in the office today, so here is the answer

i dont know if id rather have more of any given kind, so maybe a sampler pack is the best route for the first go imotbh

well do you want samplers of say all Yuengling this round or all different kinds of IPA's from different breweries?

And btw the sculpin i was just throwing out there incase you ever saw it in your immediate area to pick up for yourself. it is quality stuff that i can get here but would feel wierd shipping it to you since it is made by your neighbors

do you call the brewery and ask where they distribute in your area? ie best method to find a given beer?

no
they usually just end up giving you the name or the contact info for whoever their distributor is for a given area... then once you try contacting the distributor it is like playing handjobs and handgrenades with a stranger

Did you try this place? http://www.oldeburnsidebrewing.com/

Good beer, almost everywhere in CT with any decent beer has it, and only in growlers.

Sounds good. Im jealous

Didnt go there or have any this trip but I had it in the past. Dan brought me a growler of their black and tan and prior to that I sampled their stuff at a brewfest

just kinda adding to my dusty collection in my other room here
may get drunk one night and just start tasting best friend bottles

my best friend is the bottle

lol



just throwing this out here


Imagine if you will a fine piece of dark chocolate that has been melted down or Hershey's special dark chocolate syrup that had alcohol added to it.

Southern Tier is amazing, I have tried that one and the Creme Brulee Stout and both of them are

they are interesting...

i had ST mokah on tap last year and it really caught me off guard with how much it didnt taste like beer

unearthy ipa is nb nb

currently enjoying

decided adams warning about not having a second beer, after the ruination, was not satisfactory. so i am currently drinking:

looks like the beer i like to drink tbh

half of the hop henge down

note to self: one 22 of 8% beer is enough on a week night

everything tastes like water after a ruination IMHO

randomly woke up at 4:30
i cant find my phone

the best beer I ever had from a can

And speaking of canned beer...



Old Milwaukee's "Beer Built Right"
"We stand behind every can we build."

They are running a promo that if Milwaukee isn't America's best tasting beer, they will put their money where their mouth is.

$20 rebate on their products prior to buying or refunded
http://www.oldmilwaukee.com/tastechallenge/default.aspx

i love this beer!

i thought the hop henge was better tbh

go take over the wow forum and forcibly make it the brewery forum

Happy hour at a local bar is 2 hours of 1.75$ bottles of stone, great lakes, bells etc

currently enjoying

i drank too many beers today to list my best of and currently enjoying so i guess im just gonna go gn8

im glad you decided to not share with us
you being that guy on vent would be fine too

i like this beer

i just love the label artwork on most of the stuff pooped lol

I wish I could be a beer snob..

hmm